Playfullness and Seriousness

Designing new media health promotions that enable behavioural change.

How to be happy part 1 : Kick off

This week I picked someone and asked "what would make them really happy right now?"
Day 1: Family member
I did Toni and Kevin's clothes washing and cleaned up the house and kitchen.
Day 3-4 : FriendsI made a youtube video for my friends cafe.

Day 5-6 : Colleagues and AcquaintancesI shouted the touring troupe of the Gruffalo a round of liqueurs and discovered in the process that it was the birthday of on of the actors.
Day 7 : StrangersLast night I helped give directions to two tourist who were lost.
Apparently from the Brain Trainers system produced by Reinvention Pty Ltd (www.brain-trainers.com) this is the beginning of making positive change in your life through training your brain to think differently.
Over the next 52 weeks as a reflective journal process I intend to try this program out and see if it has any positive effect on my personal and professional practice. Given the science behind this program that chemicals essential to making new neurons are produced by happy activity in the brains left pre-frontal cortex.

A response to the LifeHouse church in Coffs Harbour

In response to a newspaper article in the Coffs Advocate http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/story/2010/05/31/coffs-harbour-church-co...

I have to question your churches Christian values of dehumanising Gay and Lesbian people. Where in the bible does it say you have the right to do this sort of behaviour. Such representations of your Assembly of God church only shows how unchristian you really are. I ask you what would Jesus Do?

"...rightly dividing the word of truth" 2 Tim 2:15

The word of god is not of condemnation. Jesus says nothing about same-sex behavior. The Jewish prophets are silent about homosexuality. Only six or seven of the Bible's one million verses refer to same-sex behavior in any way -- and none of these verses refer to homosexual orientation as it's understood today. "Test all things and hold fast to that which is good" 1 Thessalonians 5:21

Australian team of filmmakers need your design skills

"This is a great project from an Australian team of filmmakers and strategists who are really trying to make a practical difference and highlight the positive trend towards peaceful solutions to emerging conflicts. They're trying to come up with a new symbol to represent this and need your help! Anyone is welcome to contribute, whether it's a top notch design studio or someone with a good idea who sketches it onto a napkin and takes a photo." Kit Devine via DLF.

www.bebo.com/visionofhumanity

http://www.soldiersofpeacemovie.com/

HIV is making a comeback among gay and bisexual men in Cairns | QAHC Queensland Association for Healthy Communities

slip-up
via qahc.org.au

what is this notion of 'Slip-Up' I am concerned about this word used in health promotion. But I am unsure why? What is it about the word and its implications for mens practice of safe sex all of the time? This term has been used often in QLD health promotion, especially in the 'Keep it Up' and 'RAW where you sure' campaigns. I need to reflect on this word and the implications for audience knowing and meaning when they are presented with the concept of 'slipping up'. My question is to take a reflective approach and ask what it is about this word that leaves an uneasy visceral feeling.